The HSR says [obligatory "rock band" guitar miming] "don't stop believin'." [/miming] Some unruly Wisconsin fans are called out. (FWIW, the ones in our section were all fine except one guy who stood up for almost everything.)

That's the opening line from LVSC. Michigan is… favored? Elsewhere I've seen Michigan –2 and Michigan –2.5, which… wow. I know Illinois has been seivetastic on defense this year and squeaked by a Sun Belt team by three but I have also watched Michigan this year.

"There was one play and I ran down the field for an incompletion, and the linebacker that was chasing me, he was out of breath," Wolverines running back Brandon Minor said. "I came back a couple more plays and then scored. I still wasn't tired till my team beat me up on the sideline."

…but, uh… Minor's final line for the game: two carries for 35 yards and one catch for 11. He was in considerably more than he had been the past few games, but this does not exactly seem like a miraculous workload.

At least there's that. Apparently there was no replay of the critical roughing the passer penalty that turned fourth and fifteen into a first down and eventually a touchdown, but someone on the Wisconsin board has a set of images that appear to show it was a good call. FWIW.

The slot for up one with twelve minutes left: 28%. The slot for nine minutes left: 21%. For about 10:30, then, it's reasonable to assume it was the right call if Michigan had a 25% chance to punch it in.

Another reader objects, saying that chart makes an awful lot of assumptions and can't be taken as gospel, and he's right, but I think the assumptions the chart makes—like the offenses in question are NFL-average ones versus NFL-average defenses—actually bias the chart in such a way that they overstate the necessary percentage for the call to be a good idea. This was not a close decision.

I have to shout out to the decency and level-headedness of the Wisconsin fans on that message board that Brian has linked to. It may be partly a function of the M fanbase being larger than the W fanbase, but post something like that here and there would be a decent level of asshattery. Props to the Wisky fans...this makes me like/respect that team within the Big Ten pantheon even more.

Since my camera isn't even close to pocket-sized, last season I stopped taking it to the stadium because it took too much effort to carry it around and to keep it safe. (It's nice just to watch the games, particularly since I photograph more sports than I watch. Besides, I'm never close enough to get worthwhile action shots anyway.) But every now and again there's a game that makes me start to wish I'd carried my camera; this game was one of them. My camera doesn't shoot video, and I probably wouldn't have gotten any good shots of the pandemonium -- I was too busy being part of it -- but part of me wishes I'd had my camera with me, just in case.

Saying that Lloyd Carr passed in situation in which he was down is not, at all, saying he was an awesome coach. I said myself that "any coach, ever" would do that. That is not a judgement on RR vs. Carr, at all. For the record, I think Carr was, largely, an excellent coach. I think he got too far detached towards the end. I think Rodrigeuz, also, is an excellent coach.

I also think the coaches deserve credit for keeping the heads of a young team in a game in which they were getting handled. I do not think that "throwing more" when you are down 19 counts as a revolutionary strategic decision. It is a decision that every coach in NCAA football would make because it is the glaringly obvious correct decision.

Enjoy Life - you made a statement that was factually incorrect. Rather than admit that, you decided to move the goal posts, and completely alter what you originally said. When called on that, you decided to make a straw man out of my argument - something I didn't come close to saying. There's no shame in being wrong. I have been proven wrong many times on this board. It's not a contest.

Unicorns exist. In vast numbers. And they are fucking beautiful. Granted, I've never seen a unicorn and there's never been credible fossil evidence to suggest they ever existed, but maybe, someday, I'll see one, so I choose to believe they exist. That's my opinion, so it's irrefutable.

In my opinion, the sun is actually the size of a nickel and it is magnified by the pollution in our atmosphere.

In my opinion, the United States was founded in 1934 by descendents of a Visigoth tribe that migrated via time travel device.

In my opinion, Earth is constructed entirely out of taffy.

In my opinion, "gravity" is a myth- we are held in place by a giant Dyson located at the center of the earth.

Go ahead. Tell me I'm wrong. I'm just stating an opinion. If you use, HAH, "facts", to dispute that opinion, it doesn't matter. It's an opinion. Opinions can never be wrong. No matter what your facts say!

my first guess was that when you are off your meds, like about a month ago, you go around posting as some guy named "ellipses man" (in addition to posting as Chitownblue, MRG, ShockFX, BGH, Ninja Football, Brian, Other Chris and The Flaming Gerbil).

My only point is that opinions should be justified and supported by facts. When I try to figure out where I stand on something, I generally research to see if my viewpoint is valid. If I see that all statistical evidence refutes my opinion, I'll probably abandon it.